Toy Bank: Eagle
William High
c. 1940
Medium
watercolor, gouache, graphite, and pen and ink on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 30.5 x 40.7 cm (12 x 16 in.)
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.8488
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
William High · 1876–1995
William High (1876–date unknown) was an American artist whose surviving body of work consists of nine meticulously detailed watercolor illustrations created for the Index of American Design. His early life, training, and personal circumstances remain sparsely recorded, with no known details of teachers, art schools, or family background emerging from historical sources. Born in 1876, he appears in...